Health leader speaks about outreach efforts

Bracho, executive director of Latino Health Access, spoke of her middle-class upbringing in Venezuela and the inequalities she witnessed as a practicing physician.

She went to the University of Michigan, earned a master's degree in public health and left medicine behind. Bracho later moved to California and helped create Latino Health Access.

Here's an excerpt from the talk:

"It worries me to see that we have so many problems in the nation, and we always are trying to find the magic bullet, and the decisions about what strategies to implement are in the hands of people that do not live in those communities, people who want to create solutions behind the desk...

"For that reason, 20 years ago when we created Latino Health Access, we decided to invite to the table the other group of experts ... the moms that have to deal with the schools that are mediocre, with lack of access to health care, with not enough food, with lack of parks, those experts."